Senior Corporate Development Officer

Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East; Williamstown (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Habitat for Humanity International is seeking a Senior Corporate Development Officer to cultivate and manage high-value corporate partnerships across the Fortune 500 arena. The role focuses on donor engagement, grant identification, and multi-year commitments that fuel affordable housing initiatives.

You will lead partnerships from New York/Northern New Jersey with about 25% travel, collaborating across HFHI's global network to maximize impact and revenue growth while ensuring strong donor

Qualifications

• 5+ years of fundraising, sales, or prospect development experience.
• Proven success securing six- and seven-figure multiyear commitments from Fortune 500 companies.
• Experience with international partnership strategy and development.
• Exceptional relationship-building, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong project management, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
• Experience with Blackbaud CRM or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, cultivation, and stewardship of high-value corporate partnerships.
• Manage a portfolio generating between 5 and 10 million dollars annually.
• Negotiate complex, multi-year commitments in collaboration with legal, finance, and program teams.
• Collaborate with HFHI affiliates and global teams to maximize partnership value and execution.
• Track, analyze, and report on partnership performance using CRM and forecasting tools.
• Identify, cultivate, and secure new national and global corporate partnerships while strengthening existing relationships.

Skills

Relationship-building

Negotiation

Project management

Analytics & reporting

Fundraising

Strategic partnerships

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Blackbaud CRM

Job description

Leads advanced fundraising projects and initiatives, ensuring effective donor engagement, grant identification, and proposal development. When you join Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), you join a movement that believes every person deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. As our next Senior Corporate Development Officer, you will help build the partnerships that make this mission possible.

In this role, you will focus on cultivating and expanding relationships with corporate partners in the New York City market, with a particular emphasis on the banking and financial services sector. Your work will help generate critical revenue that fuels Habitat’s mission and supports families and communities around the world.

Your creativity, strategy, and relationship-building skills will directly support families and communities around the world.

Location and Travel

This position is fully remote in New York or New Jersey. You will have the flexibility to work from home while collaborating with colleagues and partners across the country and around the world.

This role requires approximately 25 percent domestic travel for partner meetings, prospecting activities, events, and other key engagements.

You will lead the development, cultivation, and stewardship of high-value corporate partnerships, primarily with Fortune 500 companies. You will manage a portfolio that generates between 5 and 10 million dollars annually and collaborate across HFHI’s global network to design innovative, mission-aligned partnerships that advance affordable housing worldwide.

Identify, cultivate, and secure new national and global corporate partnerships while strengthening existing relationships.

• Negotiate complex, multi-year commitments in collaboration with legal, finance, and program teams.
• Collaborate with HFHI affiliates and global teams to maximize partnership value and ensure seamless execution.
• Track, analyze, and report on partnership performance using CRM systems and forecasting tools.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in fundraising, sales, or prospect development
• Proven success securing six and seven figure multiyear commitments from Fortune 500 companies
• Experience with international partnership strategy and development
• Exceptional relationship-building, communication, and negotiation skills
• Strong project management, analytics, and reporting capabilities
• Experience with Blackbaud CRM or similar platforms

At Habitat for Humanity International, you join a community that believes in:

• Accountability: We take personal responsibility for Habitat’s mission.
• We protect the rights, dignity, and safety of all people we serve and work alongside.

If you are excited to create partnerships that change lives and strengthen communities, we would love to hear from you. Your leadership can help families around the world build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.

The actual salary offered for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including location, internal equity and the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience. HFHI offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package that varies by country and typically includes vacation leave, sick leave, personal days, health insurance options, retirement plan contributions and life insurance. Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. At Habitat for Humanity International, we are compelled by our Koinonia roots to put God’s love for all into action and pursue housing equity and opportunity by bringing all people together to build community and drive impact. We strive to build a culture rooted in learning, accountability and trust, attracting and retaining mission-driven talent reflective of the global communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize our success depends on courageously committing to being a workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued, and building a workforce that reflects a variety of lived experiences, backgrounds and perspectives, in which every person experiences dignity and respect.

Habitat for Humanity International is an E-Verify employer.